A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.

A group of summer camp pranksters get the scare of their lives when they target the camp's creepy
caretaker... and he takes bloody revenge! "Gruesome" (The Hollywood Reporter) and
"stomach-churning" (Boxoffice), this terrifying tale is "a brilliant slasher flick [and] gory as hell!"
(slasherpool.com).

After a cruel joke goes awry, severely burning him and subjecting him to five years of intensive,
unsuccessful skin graft treatments, Cropsy (Lou David) is back at camp... and ready to wreak havoc on
those who scarred him! With his hedge clippers in hand, he terrorizes the camp and systematically
mutilates each victim. Can a few courageous campers save themselves and destroy this demented
madman before he kills them all?

* Many people also claim that there was an early appearance by Laurence Fishburne, as the hospital orderly whose arm is grabbed by Cropsy's horrifically burnt hand just before the opening title sequence. This actor was actually Mansoor Najeeullah

* This is the film that launched the careers of acclaimed producers Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein. Their mother Miriam Weinstein is also a pre-production assistant on the film.

* Larry Joshua is actually older than the two main counselors.

* Actors had trouble holding up the garden sheers to the liking of director Tony Maylam, so in a lot of the scenes in which costumed Cropsy kills (most notably the infamous raft scene), he played the killer himself.

* The wardrobe of the film is vastly the actual wardrobe of the cast. There was rarely a costume-person on set.

* The last act of the film was meant to have taken place in a cave, but problems arose during filming and the location had to be changed at the last minute.

* The concept of the film (originally scripted as "The Cropsy Maniac") is based on a campfire story told at summer camps in and around New Jersey and upstate New York. The story is still in circulation.

* The shot of Cropsy's legs kicking wildly in the fire was actually portrayed by Tom Savini.

* Tom Savini turned down "Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)" to work on this.

SPOILER: During Todd's climactic chase at the end of the film, when he discovers Karen's body, it actually wasn't there or supposed to be there. It was decided in editing to add her into the scene. It's actually a freeze-frame from her prior death scene.